Posts Tagged ‘drinking’

• Health Canada: Drinking water quality

  Date: 2009.12.03 | Category: Canadian, Health, Water Quality & Management, Water pollution | Response: 0

  Canadian drinking water supplies are generally of excellent quality. However, water in nature is never “pure.” It picks up bits and pieces of everything it comes into contact with, including minerals, silt, vegetation, fertilizers, and agricultural run-off. While most of these substances are harmless, some may pose a health risk. For more information on Water quality in Canada LINK: Health Canada

• Practical information on treatment of drinking water

  Date: 2009.12.03 | Category: Global Water Issues, Health | Response: 0

  An online handbook, by N. Cheremisinoff, which covers the treatment of drinking water as well as industrial and municipal waste-water, and provides practical and broad-based information in one comprehensive source. LINK: Knovel

• Wikipedia: on Drinking water

  Date: 2009.11.21 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  The free encyclopedia provides great links and information on the subject of drinking water. LINK: drinking water

• How to protect drinking water during storms

  Date: 2009.11.19 | Category: Local Water Issues, Water Quality & Management, sanitation | Response: 0

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added information about how to protect your drinking water during storms and floods. Natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods can disrupt your drinking water supply and your waste-water disposal systems.  The information below is to help identify some of the issues you may face preparing for, during and after an event that can directly threaten your health and the health of your family.  LINK: EPA Respond to Floods

• UNICEF reports on water activities in Niger

  Date: 2009.11.16 | Category: Global Water Issues | Response: 0

  Listen to correspondent Nina Martinek’s touching report on UNICEF television about the activities and efforts being done to provide fresh safe drinking water, hygiene and water to rural villages in Niger. Approximately 64% of people in rural Niger do not have access to safe drinking water. They must walk long distances to fetch water and are often left no choice but to rely on stagnant pools of water for drinking, cleaning and washing.  As a result, water borne diseases, lack of hygiene and inadequate sanitation perpetuate a cycle of poverty and malnutrition in children, as well as other members of the community. Nina Martinek reports on how UNICEF’s support in the contruction and rehabilitation of bore holes and cemented wells in Nigers has eased the lives of women and children and ultimately improved the life and health of the community.

   LINK: UNICEF REPORT